Quotes About Appreciation

Our time's the most precious thing we've got to offer folks, and the worst thing a body can do is to take it away from us.

For a large part of what I know about people and things I have to thank an art of listening which wise teachers taught me early.

A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether they really want it.

The gap between most people's capacity to conjure beauty from scratch and to merely recognize it when they see it is the width of the Atlantic Ocean.

That was one of your favorite themes: that profusion, replication, popularity wasn't necessarily devaluing, and that time itself made all things rare. You loved to savor the present tense and were more conscious than anyone I have ever met that its every constituent is fleeting.

Just because there are lots of them doesn't mean that the hot apple pies aren't excellent or that it isn't a privilege to live in a time when you can buy them for 99 cents. That was one of your favorite themes: that profusion, replication, popularity wasn't necessarily devaluing, and that time itself made all things rare.

You loved to savor the present tense and were more conscious than anyone I have ever met that its every constituent is fleeting.

It wasn't that eating was so great--it wasn't--but that nothing was great. Eating being merely okay still put it head and shoulders above everything that was decidedly less than okay.

You were nice to me for almost ten years," he said gruffly. "Why should that count for nothing just because it's not going to be eleven?

A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether they really want it.

I was suffering from the delusion that it's the thought that counts.

Ketika kau mencintai seseorang, secara otomatis kau menerima segala sesuatu tentang dirinya. Hal-hal yang menjadikan dirinya apa adanya, itulah yang mebuatmu mencintainya. (David Koster - Haunted (Teratu))

Life may not be perfect, at least it offered moments that were perfect enough.

Aber niemand verdient sein Leben. Es ist ein Geschenk, das jedem gegeben ist. Es ist nicht deine Aufgabe, zu entscheiden, ob du es verdienst oder nicht.

But patience, real patience, meant more than simply waiting. Patience meant you had to honor the moments before things happened the same way you honored the moments when they did.

Patience meant you had to honor the moments before things happened the same way you honored the moments when they did.

Imagine," she said, her face turning serious for a moment, "imagine if something happened to one of us and there was no Easter egg hunt next year, imagine if everything stopped being perfect—you would wish so hard that you'd taken part today . . .

Her mother existed entirely in the moment. And she made every moment sparkle.

There was no irony in her tone and Adele was struck by how often women undervalued their own efforts whilst being endlessly impressed by those of their peers.

I will see you next week, Mum. And if I don't, then I want you to know that you have been the best and most amazing mother in the world and I have been extraordinarily lucky to have you for so long. And that I adore you. And that we all do. And that you could not have been any better than you were. OK?

doorway for a second and looks at her mother, absorbs the shape of her and the exquisite feeling of her existence in the world.

the point of shopping is to look at things, not to buy

I spent most of my youth hauling sides of beef and pork to my father's shop. Carrying you is far more enjoyable." "How sweet," Annabelle mumbled sickly, her eyes closed. "Every woman dreams of being told that she's preferable to a dead cow.

Perhaps only those who had loved and lost could appreciate this magic.